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I'm looking for a book on foundation of quantum mechanics. I started reading the book "do we really understand quantum mechanics" of franck laloë , and it seems to be very chatty and long. Do you have any recommendations?
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Jamister said:
I'm looking for a book on foundation of quantum mechanics. I started reading the book "do we really understand quantum mechanics" of franck laloë , and it seems to be very chatty and long. Do you have any recommendations?
Thank you
If the book is too long for you, there is a shorter version
http://de.arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0209123

The books on quantum foundations are usually chatty, for a reason. The point of quantum foundations is to understand not only what the equations are, but also what all those equations mean. If you don't like chatty, then perhaps by quantum foundations you mean something else. in that case I would suggest
https://www.amazon.com/dp/052187534X/?tag=pfamazon01-20
https://www.amazon.com/dp/9814578584/?tag=pfamazon01-20
 
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What the equations mean you can find in physics books, of which there are many which are not chatty (fortunately). If it comes to interpretation you have the entire gang of philosophers not far around the corner and then it gets chatty. Don't blame them. That's their job description!
 
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